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C5 THE SUN, Wednesday, June 21, 1972 Graebner, Gorman unseeded at Wimbledon Mexico or London, Smith wins ship Tennis (WCT), who are not competing this year, Stan By JOAK GRAHAM London Bureau of Tht gun London American grass court specialists Clark Graeb-ner and Tom Gorman were shocking omissions when the seeds for the Wimbledon starting Monday, were announced yesterday. -In the absence of the profes sionals from World Champion- Jim Murray the past four years has been better than any other player in the tournament Gorman's omission may be less surprising, though he reached the semi-final last year by beating Rod Laver in three straight sets. Ilie Nastase, the Romanian hard court specialist, comes in at second seed, despite never having reached the quarter-final stage at Wimbledon. The Australians, who have dominated the semi-finals and Barthes (France), Bob Hewitt (South Africa), and Alex Me-treveli, the first Russian to be seeded at Wimbledon, number eight. Defending champion Evonne Goolagong, of Australia, is top seed in the women's singles, but some thought Billie Jean King, placed second, might just have taken the top spot off her record this year.

Texan Nancy Richey Gunter, who has had a successful year the U.S., is number three, followed by the girl everyone is waiting to see, Chris Evert, playing for the first time at Wimbledon. The next four women's seeds to Kerry Melville (Australia), Rosie Casals (U.S.), Virginia Wade (G.B.), and Francoise aggravating it. Wimbledoi means a lot to me, and it's so close." Smith, trying to adjust him self to the grass here, trouble returning service in both his matches. His service' and volleying looked very' sharp. Chris Evert, 17-year-old hero-1 ine of America's Wightm'an Cup triumph of last weekend, rvlotrerl tier fircr tnttrnampnt iuj match in Britain and defeated Marina Krozina.

of the Soviet Union, 64, 6-1. The little girl from Fort Lauderdale, found herself facing a pretty Russian blonde who played a patient baseline game similar to her own. He had one hour's practice with Tom Gorman, another member of the U.S. team in Mexico, and then both went straight on court to play their first matches. Neither had played on grass since Forest Hills last August.

Gorman of Seattle, didn't stand up to the ordeal so well. He beat Syd Ball, of Australia, 6-3 64 and went through most of his second round mateh against Paolo Bertolucci, of Ita ly, but then pulled out because of back trouble. "It's not all that bad," Ger man said as he relaxed in a hot bath later. "But it was hurting me and felt it would be pretty crazy to go on and risk Fischer made pawn in Russians' hands STAN SMITH Wimbledon's top seed Durr (France). Smith of America, runner-up to John Newcombe the men singles last year, became, as expected, the number one seed.

But Graebner's omission from the list of eight seeds caused considerable surprise in England. His record at Wimbledon over pictures" are cave drawings in an earthquake. Bobby said, no, thanks, his camel was broke. The Russians compromised on Reykjavik, Iceland. For those of you bereft on an atlas, this is a fog-shrouded, inhabited iceberg in the North Atlantic reachable only by nuclear sub or polar bear.

Bobby, who has all the warmth of a hooded cobra, sputters when he thinks about it. "Stooges!" he shouts. "The International Chess Federation and the American Federation are all stooges of the Russians!" The conditions are such that "drawn" games will be allowed. To Bobby, this Is an international mistake of magnitude of not being able to bomb the enemy supply lines. Bobby wants to win.

But, of course, America is in a period of not being beastly to the Russians. Apparently, chess is a game in which it's easy to play for a stalemate. I say "apparently" because Bobby, explaining chess at the De-war's Celebrity Tennis Tournament at La Costa the other day, has all the patience of Edward Teller explaining the hydrogen atom to a guy with a bone in his nose. The Russian champion, Spassky, is "not in my class, really," Bobby says. "I'm a better player, period if we play 10 matches to win, which is the way a match of this kind ought to be played.

"I'm being dictated to by the Russian Chess Federation and my government is going along because, let's face it, we're in a program of 'detente' and I'm being sold out." Was this one of the concessions Nixon made at Moscow? Is Joe Alsop just going to sit there? Not me. I'm organizing a "Free Bobby Fischer" movement right now. After all, just because chess players are a minority doesn't mean they don't have rights! JfcOTO of Penn Pontiac's 72 model year clean-up has begun. The area's largest stock drastically reduced. Ignore The Sticker Let's Dicker London (flStan Smith moved from Mexican clay to English grass yesterday and won two matches in straight sets to start his brief buildup for an assault on the Wimbledom title.

The big tennis star from Pasadena, beat Antonio Zu-garelhV of Italy, 7-5 64 and Frew McMillan, of South Africa, 64, 6-4 to reach the third round of the London Gress Courts Championships Smith flew in late Monday night after helping the United States to a JM hammering of Mexico in the Dvis Cup. He got up yesterday morning to find he was the top seed both at the Queen's 0ub and at Wimble don, which starts next Monday, 72. finals in past years, do not have one man seeded though Bob Hewitt, an Australian now playing for South Africa, is seeded seventh. After Smith and Nastase, the six seeds among the men go to Manuel Orantes (Spain). Andres Gimeno (Spain), Jan Kodes (Czechoslovakia), Pierre Regulars 19 1.4 mg.

nicotine, Warning: The Surgeon Cigarette Smoking Is in go Los Angeles This report should properly go in the diplomatic pouch. Slug it "For Eyes Only" with one copy to the secretary of state, one to the President. promptly after reading. Get Henry Kissinger on it at once. The United States is walk-, lng into another Communist trap! It's going to be the same old story.

It's going to be a conflict of their choosing, on their grounds, under their terms. It's going to be the same old crud, a conflict we probably can't win because a stalemate is almost built in. It's going to have demilitarized zones, sanctuaries, the whole lot. International quicksand. It's the Bay of Pigs, Panmunjom, the sellout all 'over again.

We're playing for a tie, as usual. And a tie, they win. The circumstances are these: The United States is probably the world's mighti-' est chess power. That's be- cause we have Bobby Fischer, the Brooklyn prodigy whose disposition would have to improve to be described as merely "irascible." Bobby is about to be sacri- ficed on the altar of diplomat--' ic expedience, a tragic patriot in the mold of Douglas Mac Arthur, Gary Powers or the Lafayette Escadrille. We're sending him up in a coffin.

We're sending him into bat- tlehandcuffed. Has won 'em all Bobby has won all the skirmishes in this conflict. He routed a collection of Russian shock troops in Argentina a 'year ago with almost bored ease. Now, he is to meet the Russian champion, Boris Sp3ssky Immediately, of course, the Juggling started. The Russians tried to steer the ulti-- mate conflict to the Tannen-berg Marshes, or anywhere in the world the terrain would favor them.

They usually do. h. Bobby thought Las Vegas would be fine. The Russians shuddered. They had, after seen "The Godfather." suggested some venues where they think "moving Corral 15 bowlers schedule banquet The Corral 15 bowlers, affiliate of the Colt Corral, will hold their annual banquet-dance Friday night at the Beltway motel on Washington Boulevard at 8 P.M.

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